Active partnership of Third World scientists

How First World Scientists Can Reach Out to Third World Colleagues

Turn to the “Tools” or “New Products” pages of The Scientist and you will discover splendid state-ofthe-art instruments, many of which carry rather hefty price tags. It’s hard not to notice that the cost of doing science has been rising precipitously. The reason? For one, scientific investigations are increasingly more detailed or far-reaching, requiring more complex and powerful instruments. M...

Computable Scientists, Uncomputable World

(This talk is a joint work of Edwin Beggs, José Félix Costa and John V. Tucker.) Consider the classical model of a Turing machine with an oracle. The classical oracle is a one step external consultation device. The oracle may contain either non-computable information, or computable information provided just to speed up the computations of the Turing machine. In this talk we will consider the ab...

Scientists for a better world.

Last November, Vietnam opened its first production plant for the measles vaccine in the Hoang Mai District in Hanoi. This factory, funded by nonrefundable aid from the Japanese government, will become operational in early 2005 and will roll out 7.5 million vaccine doses annually, ending Vietnam’s dependence on imports (Ha, 2004). Measles is a deadly disease—every day, 2,000 children under the a...

30-year International Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Partnership: Evolution from the “Third World” Forward

BACKGROUND Craniofacial diseases constitute an important component of the surgical disease burden in low- and middle-income countries. The consideration to introduce craniofacial surgery into such settings poses different questions, risks, and challenges compared with cleft or other forms of plastic surgery. We report the evolution, innovations, and challenges of a 30-year international craniof...

A Third World Perspective